Rubio downplays threat of military invasion of Greenland and instead pushes plans to buy the island - In recent days, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller have escalated desires to acquire Greenland and re

When Marco Rubio took the lectern at Mar-a-Lago shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the country had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, it was the culmination of a decade of effort from the secretary of state and a clear sign that he had emerged as a leading voice within the Trump administration.

Leaders of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, have repeatedly shot down the idea of U.S. ownership or control of the island.

While Vice President JD Vance took a back seat amid the operation in Venezuela, Rubio's odds of being the next president surged.

Rubio’s positions have already seemed to shift. The U.S. is not turning to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, or Edmundo Gonzalez, who greatly outpolled Maduro in the 2024 election that Maduro then stole. Last January, Rubio called Gonzalez Venezuela’s rightful president.

News organizations got a rare “thank you” from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened.

While US President Donald Trump had, in his first term, sought to buy Greenland—something that is still being considered, per Secretary of State Marco Rubio—his aide and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that a military intervention was not off the table.

Follow live updates as developments emerge on Venezuela's future and U.S. allies respond to his threats against Greenland.